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25 Apr 2008 mellow_bunny

Anime Blog Awards

So I thought I better write a post about it :D! I am involved so it’s probably a good idea. As you know it’s an event for Blogger by Bloggers and we hope to get as many involved as possible. There has been some issues but Impz has addressed those as best as possible. Anywho you can check out some new banners I whipped up and some that Impz made:

I thought i’d shower everyone with some statistics. They aren’t accurate but they give an idea of the numbers involved. I’m sure i’ll be posting on the proper results once they are compiled. Poor Akai is tiredface and doing all the bean counting -.-!

Since the beginning of the awards (somewhere around a month ago) 150+ bloggers have signed up to be part of the nomination process. Most of you who have signed up are running your own blog and I think we only have a couple of cases of multiple authors from one blog signing up (this is ok btw).

We experienced the dramas of the faux DORAMA from the ABC which may or may not have affected the ABA. They are two seperate entities if you didn’t know already. Anywho over the month of nominating we had somewhere in the region of 850+ nomination comments. I think you could probably double that number for the number of actual votes considering most people posted more then one nomination per comment. Heck it could be triple that number.

According to Google apparentely our top search query is Best Manga. I don’t have access to the server stats at the moment but i’ll try get them off Akai for my next ABA post.

The site is based on the brilliant work by Derek Punsalan and his Grid Focus theme. I altered it around a bit and I made most of the graphics on the site as it is now. There are a few changes i’d like to make to it but I’m short on time. I have to finalise the award badges today as well as creating the People’s Choice Award. I’m thinking of a complete site redesign once this year’s event is over. Not to mention I think we will be running an Indie version in a few months.

The one major thing I have gotten out of the Awards are all the new blogs i’ve now seen. It’s amazing how my bookmarks have grown. I DIDN’T KNOW YOU GUYS WERE OUT THERE D:! It’s awesome to see! Reading blogs now takes me ages :P!

It’s kind of cool to be part of the Awards. It’s neat to see a better overview of who is out there in the Anime Blogosphere. As of yet I haven’t seen a very definitive chart or statistical analysis on the numbers of people who publish and those who read. It would be nice if there was some sort of site that could show us the extent of the community.

But anywho, I’ll write up another post once we begin the Voting. Also if anyone wants to have a crack at design ideas for the ABA I’m all ears. :D!

-mellow_bunny

25 Apr 2008 mellow_bunny

Gravatar Oh How I Despise J00

Say hello to Gravatar.

Not only is this service slow. But for the last month I haven’t been able to login to their system. I cannot remove myself from their system nor can I access the help system on their site.

I like the idea it’s great. I’ll use it again when it’s working properly. BUT FOR GOODNESS SAKE. FIX YOUR DAMN PROBLEMS. This is driving me insane. At least give me the option to disable my account.

NERD RAEG is infinite. Also as a sidenote Opera is an awesome browser.

09 Apr 2008 Pablo-kun

KureNai 01 - Climatic Night

Sorry I’m late for the party, but it’s better late than never. As mellow stated before I’m the new blogger here at mellow space and this is in fact the first post I’m gonna publish. I lacked caffeine, needed sleep and was hungry when I wrote this so feel free to point out any incoherence with the actual show.

Shinkurou Kurenai is a high school student who lives alone in a one room apartment, he possesses some kind of fighting body he adquired (I don’t know why or how). He lives of jobs as a “negotiator” as he called himself which involves whipping out some random thugs designated by his employer. this time around his employer is a woman, Juusawa Benika along with Yayoi her assistant. She seems to hold a high place in society and performs all actions merely by intuition. One day she comes with an unusual offer: a seven year old girl wearing an expensive kimono whom he must protect. Why you’d ask? she’s being targeted. Reason? she got sprung out of her house for reasons not explained (at least not in episode 01).

The girl is Kuhouin Murasaki (the loli), a child that was raised in the middle of big family disputes. Since the age of five she was not permitted to leave her residence hence why she’s unaware of the true outside world and the commoner’s lifestyle. Her mother, Kuhouin Souju was mentioned dead in this episode though I’m not aware how that went, Murazaki was forced to accept Kazuko (couldn’t find out her last name) her father’s second wife as a mother. Murasaki obviously hates her for secluding her in that mansion and for causing pain to her real mother who she treated miserably. Now Murasaki’s staying under Shinkorou’s care. Either if he’s doing it for money or out of pity now He’s gonna have to deal living with her avoid her followers.

I can’t really tell Kurenai’s genre yet but in the mean time I’ll classify it as Drama. Kurenai is being developed by Brains Base studios